Yuri Manga
We’ve added some new items to the Yuricon Store:
Volume 1 of the Otherside Picnic manga is something I’m really looking forward to. In part because IMHO, they got the UBL creatures in a way the anime just didn’t. We’ll be getting this at the end of the summer.
Neko to Sugar Pot (猫とシュガーポット) is a short story collection by Yukiko.
Mayu, Matou, Volume 4 (繭、纏う) is up on the store. Check out this awesome photoshoot for the series on Comic Natalie! This series is licensed in English by Yen Press as Cocoon, Entwined.
YNN Correspondent David Mankins and a few others spotted the exciting news that Ameco Kaeruda’s Sexiled Light Novel series has a new manga starting up in Japan on Webry. Check out Onna Dakara (女だから)’s first chapter online in Japanese now!
YNN Correspondent Laurent Lignon wants us to know that their favorite Yuri manga, Yoru to Umi (夜と海) is getting a third volume. You can find Volume 1 and Volume 2 on the Yuricon Store and we’ll get V3 up shortly. ^_^
Also on the to-go-up pile are two series from Comic Ruelle & Comic Jardin – Sal Jiang’s Black & White (白と黒～Black&White～) and sono. N’s SHWD, both of which are getting collected volumes as part of the magazine’s Yuri Fair. ^_^
Ohi Pikachi has announced the fourth and final volume of Hayama-sensei to Terano-sensei ha Tsukiatteriru (羽山先生と寺野先生は付き合っている) which is released in English as Our Teachers Are Dating! by Seven Seas.
Anime News
ANN’s Egan Loo has the trailer and details on the Kaegki Shoujo! anime. It looks lovely.
Paul Chapman on Crunchyroll News brings us a magical transformation from Blue Reflection Ray.
Alex Mateo on ANN has the preview of the new movie from Revue Starlight (劇場版 少女☆歌劇 レヴュースタァライト)!
By request from the newest member of our Okazu family, the Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl Collection Blu-Ray has been added to the Yuricon Store!
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LGBTQ Media News
This week Netflix premiered Ride or Die, the live-action adaptation of Nakamura Ching’s Yuri manga GUNJO. There’s been a fair amount of press, positive and negative. Here are a couple of pieces I think are worth reading:
Max Gao’s NBC article Stars of Netflix’s lesbian thriller ‘Ride or Die’ on their on- and off-screen connection was well worth your time.
I had no qualms with David Erlich’s impression in A Sexually Charged Friendship Turns Murderous in a Refreshing New Japanese Netflix Drama for IndieWire.
A fan Twitter account for the actress who played Rei, Mizuhara Kiko, has translations of some of the star’s interviews from Japanese and links to the originals. Culture and style magazine CREA also has an interview with Mizuhara-san.
I dropped a short review yesterday on Okazu, I’ll have a more detailed one for ANN coming up.
Seven Seas announced Volume 3 of Love Me For Who I Am, which hit shelves this week.
Kodansha’s offered up a cover reveal and launch date for Gaku Keito’s manga about a trans boy, Boys Run the Riot. I’ll have a review of this for tomorrow, I hope you’ll look forward to it!
Via YNN Correspondent Megan, Crunchyroll is losing Wandering Son, Takako Shimura’s anime about transgender tweens, so if you want to watch or rewatch, you have until April 21st.
Events
Via YNN Correspondent Mariko S, Tokyo House Party is doing Mahou Shoujo Month of virtual events with, “A History of Magical Girls and Feminism in Japanese Art,” on April 24.
Reminder that My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness creator Nagata Kabi will be a featured guest at the all-virtual Toronto Comic Arts Festival, May 8-15, , so don’t miss that!
Other News
Kyoto Tower is running a Godzilla vs Kyoto event this summer, which I am including here because I really like the poster by Nakamura Yusuke. ^_^
I have to end this week with this hilarious skit from Saturday Night Live, Lesbian Period Drama. Thanks to all the YNN Correspondents who sent it it in. The wife and I watched it through a bunch of times as soon as it hit the Internet. ^_^ Carey Mulligan was an added bonus. If you haven’t yet seen it, put down that drink first.
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I keep making the “Read or Die”/“Ride or Die” confusion, too.
Did I do it again, argh. Thanks.
Am I getting it right that Gunjo is something of an erotic thriller that was trending in the 90s? Realistic queer dramas have always been pretty sensitive for me, so i’m a little confused about whether i should try to watch it.
There is a category for GUNJO here on Okazu. I started writing about it in 2008.
If you’re wondering about something I’m mentioning over and over, Super, you can always use the search tool on the right side of the page. There’s also a drop-down category list. Try doing that first, before asking the same questions all over again. I do know it’s you and it’s not at all cute to have changed your name and kept commenting here when I told you you weren’t welcome. But as long as you didn’t start with this bizarre “tell me stuff you’ve already said” things you do, I let it go.
Learn to answer your easily-answerable questions on your own, or you’ll be banned again.
Thanks for the collection of Ride or Die links! When I get time I’ll definitely be reading with interest the cast interviews and the other info from behind the scenes.
Couple of tidbits from this week: Vol 1 of アラサー美女は地味女に餌付けされる – a plain office lady, Makoto, finds her beautiful coworker Ayaka dead drunk after she found her husband cheating. Makoto takes Ayaka home and treats her to simple home cooking. Several days later after Ayaka arranged for divorce she moves in as Makoto’s neighbour… https://natalie.mu/comic/news/424495
An interview with author Goumoto for the release of vols 3 of Yoru to Umi. She mentions the 2004 British lesbian film My Summer of Love as an inspiration. She explains her reasons for getting interested in Yuri – it’s a method of depicting her favourite types of relationship, that is, relationships between women not confined only to romance. http://yurinavi.com/2021/04/15/yorutoumi-interview/
Good Smile Company has a (NSFW) ¼ scale figure of Kusanagi from GITS’ iconic poster: https://www.goodsmile.info/en/product/10986/Motoko+Kusanagi.html
I found out this week Nanami Hiroki, for many years Takarazuka’s otokoyaku star, performing Oscar among many other roles, has started an anime seiyuu career since retiring in 2019 – she appeared as Rei in tonight’s episode of Pretty Boy Detectives, as a character in upcoming visual kei anime Visual Prison, and will play the character of otokoyaku star Satomi Sei in Kageki Shoujo’s anime: https://kageki-anime.com/character/sei.html